7.to regard as true or sound; believe, to accept a claim; to accept Catholicism.

8.to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.

9.to receive as to meaning; understand.

10.Commerce. to acknowledge, by signature, as calling for payment, and thus to agree to pay, as a draft.
11.(in a deliberative body) to receive as an adequate performance of the duty with which an officer or a committee has been charged; receive for further action, The report of the committee was accepted.1